His Music

Tom sings and plays piano, keyboard synthesizers, chromatic harmonica:

I mostly play the Hohner Super 64/64X chromonicas, along with Lee Oskar diatonic and altered tuning harmonicas. I really enjoy meshing piano with synthesizer stylings, and I never know what I’m gonna come up with on harmonica!

2024 NEW ALBUM!…WATCH FOR ANIMALS… with 10 new original recordings…

see NEW RELEASE 2024 page for more details and updates, and some tracks, enjoy!

2023 NEW ALBUM!..HEARTSPICE…with 10 new original recordings…

see NEW RELEASE 2023 page for more details and updates, and some tracks, enjoy!

2020 NEW ALBUM!..MINDSWEEPER…with 20 new original recordings…

see NEW RELEASE 2020 page for latest details and updates, and some tracks, enjoy!

2019 NEW ALBUM!… IN ME…13 new original recordings…

see NEW RELEASE 2019 page for latest details and updates, and some tracks, enjoy!

2017 NEW ALBUM!… SAGUARIUM…12 new original recordings…

see NEW RELEASE 2017 page for latest details and updates, and some tracks, enjoy!

EARLIER ORIGINALS:

I originally recorded these solo over 30 years ago. Just me, my upright pianos, harmonicas, and a couple microphones. Clung to the tapes throughout all my travels since then. They captured the moments, I call them my piano rolls!

I miss those big upright pianos I used back then, each key had its own personality, thick acoustics, they sure shook the walls with love. Maybe someone might endear these tunes with their own styling and inspiration – sharing can be a good thing.

I hope you enjoy a few of the full length selections below, oh they’re not digitally crisp or super polished, but hopefully will still warm you up a bit.

CDs/Digitals are available.

Regal Nights

For awhile I played in a tavern in the Steel City, where a stranger or two would wander in for a cool one and a song. These first songs of mine were written during those tavern times.

Strolling / Cross My Way / Subject To Change / Trouble Is / Mixed Signals / Back Of My Mind / Blue Or White / She’s The One / Am I Coming Across / Just A Little / This Town / George Just Can’t Decide

Back Of My Mind (with lyrics)

Blue Or White (with lyrics)

George Just Can’t Decide (with lyrics)

Used To Be Enough

These songs were written while I lived on the shore of a great big lake. Just me, four thin walls, instruments, a few steps from the water, waves throughout the night… and 6ft snow drifts in the winter!

You And I / Used To Be Enough / The Same Things / You Don’t Know What It’s Like / Another Time / Your Love / Sidestep Me Blues / Moonlight / Lament / 5 AM / Pull Through / Tomorrow

You And I (with lyrics)

Used To Be Enough (with lyrics)

Another Time (with lyrics)

Moonlight (with lyrics)

Real Soon

I remember jogging in winter at the lake where I was recording, along the pier at the drawbridge, it was completely covered in ice, slipping, blustering winds, icy waves spraying me as I ran preoccupied with songs in my head, crazy! In hindsight, the instrumental forays started on Used To Be Enough and here on Real Soon really continued to build inside me.

Ode To Jelly / Easy Things / Its Time / There And Back / Real Soon / Can’t Settle Down / UV Glasses / The Way You’re Set / Its Crazy / Burden Heavy / Stomp / Take It Slow

Ode To Jelly

There And Back

Burden Heavy (with lyrics)

Songs & Sounds (2 CDs)

These were the last recordings back then, stretching non-standard chords all over the place, rarely heard but they’re so pretty. More pure chromatic phrasing. I’d sit for hours playing the same thing then just take off on another beckoning set of keys and notes, somehow made them all fit together. A CD of songs and one of instrumentals, with peaks and sideroads and all the things you wished you could be…

Songs (with lyrics)

No Answers / Still In Love / Favourite / You’ll Never Know / Any Closer / Going The Other Way / Bull In A China Shop / Jude’s Men / New Orleans Rain

Sounds

Stronger After / Turbine / Swirling Dervishes / Not Much Difference / 3 In 1 / Those Days / Don’t Wanna Know / Colours Of You / Picture Keeps Changin / All In Your Head / Whatever Trickles Down / Lighten Up / After Hours People

No Answers (with lyrics)

Still In Love (with lyrics)

Jude’s Men (with lyrics)

Those Days (with lyrics)

Whatever Trickles Down

After Hours People